🔒 Closed Russian officials arrive in Belarus for talks with Ukraine, Kremlin says

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The Kremlin announced on Sunday that a Russian delegation has arrived in Belarus for talks with Ukraine.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine entered the fourth day on Sunday.

Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the Russian delegation included officials from the foreign and defense ministries and president Vladimir Putin’s office, according to the Interfax news agency.
 
Zelensky again refused to negotiate, despite the arrival of the Russian delegation in Gomel. He does not want negotiations to take place on the territory of Belarus
 
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said his country was ready for talks with Russia but rejected the offer to hold them in Belarus, calling it an invasion staging ground.

Mr Zelensky offered alternate locations in Europe such as Warsaw, Bratislava, Budapest or Baku to hold peace talks.


“We want to talk, we want to end the war,” the Ukrainian president said in a video to the Russian leaders, adding that the talks can be held, but only in a country “from which missiles aren’t flying”.


Other locations are also possible, Mr Zelensky said, but added that Ukraine will not hold peace talks in Russia’s hand-picked country Belarus, which has played a critical role in aiding Moscow’s invasion.

Mr Zelensky’s remarks came shortly after the Kremlin said its leaders had reached Belarus for peace talks.

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Huddled masses of frightened Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion last night rode trains from Lviv in the country’s west to NATO ally Poland, with men under 60 allegedly prevented from leaving by officials and forced to say goodbye to their families.

Astonishing videos show a vast exodus at the city’s railway station as terrified civilians race to neighbouring countries to escape Vladimir Putin’s forces.

Witnesses at the station claimed that men aged 18-60 were blocked by state officials from getting on trains after Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky declared a general mobilisation and ordered men under pension aged to stay behind and fight the Russians.

At least 150,000 people have escaped Ukrainians into neighbouring countries, the UN refugee agency said on Saturday. It is feared that 4million people could flee the war-torn country if the situation deteriorates further.

One woman is believed to have been killed during a crush at the border with Poland as people queued for 25 hours, with temperatures plummeting below zero at night, to escape bombs in the besieged country.

A British man caught up in the chaos with his Ukrainian girlfriend called the scene ‘absolute pandemonium’, adding: ‘There was very little organisation and the closer you got to the front, the more people were pushing and shoving.

‘Every so often there would be these big surges and people would be screaming. There were lots of young children and it felt very dangerous. Terrifying. Fights broke out as people accused others of pushing in or of hurting them. People had blood running down their faces. We saw a couple of women fainting and being carried above the crowd.

‘And there was a strong rumour that someone had been crushed to death – the Polish border guards confirmed they had heard it was true.

‘It was beyond unsafe. I have got bruises on me from all the pushing and I am just pleased that we finally managed to make it to Poland.’

Some Ukrainians have walked many miles through the night while others have fled by train, car or bus, forming lines miles long at border crossings. They were greeted by waiting relatives and friends or headed on their own to reception centres organised by neighbouring governments.
 
Lukashenka:

There is not a single Belarusian soldier in Ukraine, not a single cartridge. There is no need to fasten us to where we are not.

We must stop the war. I wouldn't even call it a war. This is conflict. Day or two - there will be a war. And three days later - a meat grinder
 
Thousands of people at the railway station in Lviv waiting for a train to Poland.
 
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